“女”在语言里属于核心词 ,也是汉字里最早产生的古老象形字之一。许慎在《说文》里正确地指出了“女”字是个象形字 ,但是他并没有具体说明“女”字究竟表现了女人那方面的形象特征。这或许因为“女”字的形象信息在许慎的时代是不言而喻的 ,或许是因为小篆中“女”字的形象 “Female” is the core word in language, but also one of the earliest Chinese characters in ancient pictographs. Xu Shen correctly pointed out in the Shuo Wen that the word “female” is a pictographic character, but he did not specify whether the word “female” actually shows the image of a woman in that respect. This may be because the “female” character image information in the Xu Shen era is self-evident, perhaps because Xiaozhuan “female” image